[Deutsche Welle] Health officials have expressed concern about containment as the virus reaches a city of 1 million people. At the same time, WHO began shipping thousands of trial vaccines to Kinshasa.

[SciDev.Net] London -As the first quarter of 2015 draws to an end the number of conflicts around the world shows no sign of abating. There are now more refugees living outside their home country than ever before in human history, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR.

[IRIN]London -When Ebola hit West Africa last year, it was a disease with no sign of a vaccine or cure. To those affected that may have been an indication that the wider world didn’t care about them or the diseases that affected them, but in truth there has simply been no incentive for anyone to develop these therapies.

[CAJ News]Nairobi -Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said it was “carefully reviewing” allegations by former patients alleging they were sterilised without their consent at third-party Kenyan health structures.